Fighting off Swine Flu by the "Power of Prayer"
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November 29, 2009 |
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Swine flu patients cannot come to church and offer worship services at home through the internet, and other members of their family receive prayer in their place from Dr. Jaerock Lee on their pictures or via cell phones.
On November 13, around 4:30 p.m., Hyungtae Lim came to the Senior Pastor Dr. Jaerock Lee's house with a desperate heart.
His daughter Jiyul was diagnosed with swine flu, and was suffering from high fever. She was delirious and her eyes were rolling back. Lim explained his daughter's symptoms to the Senior Pastor and he prayed for his daughter over the cell phone. (Picture: bottom center). From that moment on, her temperature began to drop, and she began to eat as she got better. At the next medical check up taken at the hospital on November 16, Jiyul was diagnosed of no longer having the swine flu.
As the weather is getting colder, seasonal flu is becoming more prevalent, and the number of swine flu patients is drastically on the rise. In Korea alone, the number of patients with swine flu has risen above ten thousand as of November 2009, and the Korean Ministry for Health and Family Welfare recently raised the epidemic disease level to "serious" to actively deal with this problem. Now, swine flu, which used to make people worry, is now making people fear. People are scared simply if someone coughs near them. Not only do they refrain from traveling, but they even cancel scheduled meetings and events.
On November 17, at 9 p.m., it was hard to find empty seats in the main sanctuary of Manmin Central Church, located at 235-3 Guro-3dong, Gurogu, Seoul. This was because of the two "Continuous Special Daniel Prayer Meetings," which started November 13. During these meetings, over 3,000 members gather in the main sanctuary alone, and every night they cry out in prayer without any concerns of swine flu, which could easily be spread through the air. Aside from these meetings, Sunday, Friday, and Wednesday worship services, Tuesday district prayer meetings and women's cell services are still being offered as usual. It's very rare to see someone wearing a cough mask.
Why are Manmin members not scared of the swine flu? There is a verse in the Scripture that reads, "If you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His eyes, if you pay attention to His commands and keep all His decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you" (Exodus 15:26).
So far, about twenty Manmin members were healed of the swine flu by the prayer of Senior Pastor Dr. Jaerock Lee. And most of them claimed that they had gotten this disease because they hadn't lived within the word of God. Of course, we have to be careful even though we live by the word. During the 2009 Israel United Crusade, at the request of the Israeli pastors, Dr. Jaerock Lee prayed for the stopping of the spread of swine flu in Israel. Since then, the Israeli pastors have been notifying the church through letters that the number of patients in the country has been decreasing.
On November 15, Dr. Jaerock Lee stated during the Sunday evening service before he went to mountain prayer house, "If any one of you comes down with the swine flu, report it to the Secretary Office or Administration Office with your picture, name, parish, gender, and age. Then I will pray for you at the mountain. And pastors and district leaders can also pray for you with the handkerchief."
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Manmin News 
